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The Rav. Anna Garlin n: tpdeione, ie is
to preach on Sunday, was formerly the
minister of the Religious Society of Bell
Street Chapel. Mrs. Spencer began her
career as a journalist in 1869, later took
up teaching for a time and then became
the minister of the Bell Street Chapel.

- During her ministry the “World’s Parlia-
ment of Religions” was held, at which she
was one of the speakers. At present Mrs.
Spencer is Professor of Sociology and
Ethics at Meadville, and Staff Lecturer at
the New York School of Philanthropy.
This will be the second time that a
woman has been invited to conduct and
preach at the Sunday evening service.
Dr. Anna Shaw preached here about five
years ago.

Instruction for Confirmation will be de-
livered at the Church of the Good Shep-
herd, Rosemont, on Friday afternoons, at
four o’clock, during Lent.

Dr. Barnes is doing experimental work
in light under E. Rutherford at Manches-
ter, England. His experiments at Cam-
brige had to do with wave lengths in the
region between violet and X-rays.

Miss Orie Latham Hatcher is writing
a book for Vassar’s Fiftieth Anniversary,
with the title, “The Custom of Dramatic
Entertainment within Shakespeare’s
Plays.”

Mr. Frank Harris, who is to lecture
here on the 13th, was formerly the editor
of the “Fortnightly Review,” editor of the
“Saturday Review,” 1894-1899; editor of
“Vanity Fair,” 1905-1909. Mr. Harris is
the author of “The Women of Shakes-
peare,” “Shakespeare and His Love,”
“The Man Shakespeare,” etc. The sub-
ject of his lecture will be “The Personal
Shakespeare-and the Lady of the Son-
nets.”

Laura Bryne, 1912, has been appointed
Assistant Business Manager to the Col-
lege. Ellen Pottberg, 1911, who was act-
ing as temporary assistant manager, is
now teacher of Latin in the William
Penn High School.

Miss Georgiana Woodberry, A.B.,
Smith, ’85, has been appointed house-
keeper in Rockefeller.

The subject for the interclass debate

on Wednesday evening was: “Resolved:
that the United States should buy ships
-toincrease ite“merchant: marine.” The |
Senior team was BE. Noyes, M. G. Brow-
nell, F. Hatton. The Sophomore speak-
ers were E. Russel, E. Holcombe, D. Ship-
ley.

WOMEN AND WAR IN GERMANY

 

‘A Letter from ‘a Former Graduate Student
at Bryn Mawr College, Daughter of
Professor of Medicine at the Univer-
sity of Berlin.

The following letter has just been re-
ceived by an American, friend of the
writer, who was the holder of one of the
| German Government scholarships at Bryn

Mawr College in 1912-1913. She and her

| family have also had close ties with Eng- |

President McCracken, the new presi-|!and for many years, and she was for a

 

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dent of Vassar, has already made two in- | Year of more a graduate student at St.
teresting changes in the college customs. | Andrews’ University, Scotland.
He has given the wardens who are all |
alumnz of Vassar, the responsibility of ;
taking care of alumneze, who come back) Berlin, 4 October, 1914.

to the college, and of managing the busi- I hear that there is now some chance!
ness connected with finding occupations | for open letters to find their way across,
for students just graduating from college. so I shall try at last to answer your letter. |
President McCracken has also decided to) It is hard to imagine that anybody can |
have only one member of the graduating | be outside of all that is going on with!
class speak at commencement. This | such gigantic force, outside in the battle- |

The Jetter was sent opened.
|

that time the Red Cross may be thankful
to get me back. _

-We knit, _we sew, we preserve for the
soldiers; it is touching how the very
poorest find means to get wool, or flannel,
and do more than their share. But vic-
tories are received more or less as a mat-
ter of course. We know there is no alter-
native. It is either win or perish, and
we feel too strong—we feel that our na-
tion has too much vitality, for the latter.

There is comparatively little bitterness
against the enemies. The Russians are
pitied as poor devils, driven into this war
by their leaders, not sufficiently educated
‘to know what they are about, and it is in-
| deed pitiful to see, as we have here in the
East, how they are willing to be made

| prisoners and look forward to the tidiness

}and cleanliness of our prisoners’ camps.
The French we can also understand, and
| their old desire for revenge; but the bit:
terness is great toward England, for we
|can’t find any excuse for England’s cal-

 

speaker is to be elected by the Senior

undergraduate point of view.

School of Aviation. This course of three | get.

chines. Flights will be made,

‘motive forgotten, everyone intent on the

There is a movement on foot at the one idea only, to save his country and to
University of Pennsylvania to have lec-| help to end this terrible war as quickly
tures begin at 8 o’clock in order that/as possible, once it could no longer be

there may be a longer period of daylight | avoided.
in the afternoon for athletic practices.

The University of Toronto has confer-! lected funds for the Red Cross.
red degrees, without examination,

listed.

between Wellesley, Mt.

Resolved:

government according to the Des Moines
plan.”

Representatives of Yale, Columbia,
Princeton, New York University, Cornell,
Harvard, and Pennsylvania met last Sat-
urday at the University Club, in New
York City, to discuss the anti-militaristic
movement in men’s colleges.

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'der: “Zur Mobilmachung der gesammten
| Streitkrafte,” were read aloud.

After one powerful cheer the people
’ | went home, solemn and quiet, as they had
come. Everyone went to work, and work!
| they did so tremendously that within a
ifew days we had a gigantic army
‘ready ‘to fight, were able to feed and
| clothe and nurse them. Boys pulled the
| milk cart, because the horses were given |
| for the soldiers;; women conducted tram
| cars, because the men were getting ready |
| to go; women and children went out into
| the country to bring the harvest in and
| take the places of all those that were
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s)
| what that means. I myself am substitut-
‘ing for the’ man teacher in my sister’s
. school; exams, of course, are quite out of
_the questidn (she had expected to take
| her examination for a Ph.D. degree at the
| University of Berlin this year), not only
because of their selfishness, but because
there is nobody there to examine you.
The first two weeks I was helping in the
Red Cross, but they still have so many

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| fields and inside every single individual; |
class and her speech is to present the| and I wonder how much or how little you |
|people across the water, go through all

A course in aviation has been opened this with us and how scanty, how partial, |
to Cornell undergraduates by the Thomas wrong or just the news may be which you
I wonder whether you can picture.
months will include the management and | what it means to see a whole nation
construction of both land and water ma-| united, every egotistical, every personal

Even the prisoners in gaol have col-| °
The firm |
on | and absolutely self-understood way every-
forty-four of its students, who have en- body does and knows his duty, the tre-
|/mendous sacrifices brought and given as
A triangular debate is to be held /if it were the greatest favor allowed, to
Holyoke, and | sacrifice all that is possible, the good hu-
Vassar on March 20th. The subject is;;mor that everywhere tries to hide the)
“That the average American | tears; all that is so great, so wonderful,
City shall adopt the commission form of | the strength of moral quality and the
vigor flaming in all those eyes that are
usually dull, bound to some dreary work |
and selfish aims and that may now set)
all their strength to some larger, higher |
to help save their}

We can never forget those first days of
The Russian army was march-
ing up along our eastern border and for'|

window for the Tsar’s answer, whether or}
not he would withdraw his troops trom |
Thousands and thousands |
were solemnly moving up and down Unter
den Linden, waiting to hear and prepar-
then the cathedral
bells began to ring and called us in for|

erful singing of our old Lutheran war}!
“Bin feste Burg ist unser Gott.” |
A, few minutes later the Castle doors
opened and the Tsar’s telegram and im-
| mediately afterwards our Emperor's or-

| “Bin Volk in Waffen,” we know now |

was in, and then came here, where I shall |.
be till Christmas at least.

|Cculations and know that even in their
own government the party was strong
‘that protested, whilst with us not even a
single Socialist hesitated to vote for the
necessary war funds.

This war, as we see it, cannot but de-
moralize England, fighting for profit, help-
ing the more or less barbaric East, and
thinking to achieve with money what we
|do with an enthusiasm that can only be
‘called sacred. It is so in the people's
mind and that is what counts and it mat-
ters little whether philosophers or theolo-
gists of later ages will justify it or not.
_If the feeling is bitter toward the Eng-
lish nation as a whole, we always. ac-
knowledge that the individual English-
men are our best enemies, fight like gen-
tlemen, and that our and the British doc-
tors work together splendidly; while the
eruelty—and inhumanity —of—the—French
|African troops and the Belgian popula-
tion in the industrial centers surpasses
everything that has ever happened even
in the most terrible colonial wars.

The occupation of Belgium was, in our
eyes, necessary self-defense, and now that
| French and English arsenals and reserves
}have been found there in large numbers,
it proves how right we were and that
|England as well as France had long be-
fore broken Belgium’s neutrality. Nev-
ertheless, in our critical way, it was an
jact_ much discussed and not easily de-
| cided upon or justified,

When the regiments move out or pass
through the stations they get food, cigars,
etc., but what we can never have in suffi-
cient quantities is flowers. “Just one
more flower” is all they ask for, over and
|over again, and as they go marching by,
| with a rose in their gun, flowers every-
where, and the cannons almost hidden
under branches and blossoms, they look
so peaceful and try so hard to cheer up
their wives and children that it makes .
one forget the trains and trains full of
wounded and suffering men that come in,
likewise an endless string.
oT Most admirable also is the civic charity
| organization, All the poorer children
|whose fathers are now in the army or
#/ out of work are fed by the municipality
‘or in private families. For the time of
ithe war, for instance, I am godmother to
| so and so many children and am responsi-
| ble for their physical and moral upbring-
| ing. As long as I was still in Berlin I
gave out 700 lunches a day, paid for by
‘the city, in one single school district only.
| Nevertheless the suffering is, of course,
| great.
| If you are interested to get German
papers, I shall try to send them regularly.
But very few we have sent have arrived
so far. They are mostly kept back on ac-
count of England’s interest to spread fake
news about Germany and keep matters

/secret that may be published here.

If you can, write and tell me how peo-

ple judge and think in your country and
‘let me know how you and your family
are. I shall be very, very thankful.
Would you mind sending this letter on?
So few letters arrive that if you get this
one I should be thankful if you would
send it on.
Much love’ ove
Mariana Ewald